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A Year in American History Project-Grade 11-Mr. Koenig

What Was There - Uses Google Maps technology to create a virtual time machine that allows users to navigate settings in various towns and cities to see how they appeared in the past.

History Central- Includes timelines, a section devoted to American wars, and the 20th Century Almanac, which gives popular culture and historical information for any given year in the twentieth century.

Eye Witness to History: 20th century - An award-winning website presenting history through the perspective of those who actually lived it - from the ancient world through the 20th century.

Awesome Stories - primary-source information created to help educators and individuals find original sources located at national archives, libraries, universities, museums, historical societies and government-created web sites.

Infoplease Almanac - Includes a "Year by Year Chronology: 1900 - 2008, a "This Day in History" section, biographical information on more than 30,000 people, etc.

HistoryNet - Contains daily features, photo galleries and over 5,000 articles originally published in HistoryNet's various magazines, covering almost every period of history.

American Memory - Collections of primary source materials from the Library of Congress. Includes a "Today in History" section with information on what happened in American history every day of the year.

eThemes - This source has links to up-to-date and safe online resources, maintained by the University of Missouri. For this project, click on the A-Z link, then Dto get to the list of links to Decadeinformation.